@kriegsforscherD@Hel1Soldier the first response to your post is some jackass type comment. sigh ... these people have infinite amount of time to shit on honest people doing good work. sorry man.
I resigned as U.S. Ambassador Ukraine when Trump kept siding with Putin over our democratic partner. Now, my successor is doing the same.
I knew I had to speak out and run for office because siding with dictators is just not who we are.
I love this guy. No BS. That's what red lines look like. No twisting and turning and making crap up like little "genius" orange trump figurine is doing now with iran and whatever other nonsense conflicts he takes on.
No one in the world deals with the weak, and international law does not work without strength. To succeed in negotiations, we must be strong on the battlefield and united on the home front. I shared my views today at the Kyiv Security Forum.
Our “red lines” remain unchanged: we will not recognize any territorial losses, and we are not going to trade our land. Any compromise must, first and foremost, serve Ukraine’s interests.
Ukraine’s “oil sanctions” are working effectively. This is not only financial damage for the aggressor, but above all a powerful reputational blow. The world sees that Russia is no longer a reliable supplier. Our goal is clear – to deprive the enemy of the resources needed to wage war.
Militarily, we are at a stage where simply increasing the number of drones no longer fundamentally changes the situation. Both we and the enemy have reached a certain limit in the use of existing control technologies. The next stage is the full integration of artificial intelligence.
We need a transition to autonomous systems capable of independently identifying targets and maneuvering. Ukraine already has such developments, and I am convinced they will very soon come as a surprise to the enemy.
Країна з населенням, всього близько 3 млн (менше ніж населення Києва), передала нам допомогу, більшу ніж деякі великі європейські країни
Дякуємо нашим братам литовцям 💪🇱🇹🇺🇦
It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States — thank you for your support. Light will prevail.
4 years ago today, a Ukrainian Air Force pilot heads to his MIG-29 Fulcrum, nearby fuel depot burning after a Russian missile strike, ready to repel Russia’s initial invasion.
Wake up. The war has started (c)
It was morning. My girlfriend and I decided to sleep a little bit longer. But her mom called her and said: Honey, wake up. The war has started. I remember that I literally felt nothing. I don’t know why. I just hoped that I won’t be killed by Russian aviation while driving to the frontline using a train.
It wasn’t loud in Lviv. It was just a regular morning. I had a breakfast. And while drinking a coffee I’ve watched video of Russian president talking about “denazification” and shit like that. I just thought: come and try.
Took a taxi. Went to the military store. Bought different gear and spent 400$ of my own savings. Need to say that I came too
late and bought the remainings.
My GF (already a wife) told me for the first time that she loves (cause we have been dating for six months when the war has started) me and that she had zero doubts as to my decision to join the resistance. I remember that I told her to find a decent man and raise an honorable son.
So I decided to skip all the trainings. Took a train to Dnipro and joined the 1st assault company that were not a part of the army till the end of May 2022.
I had zero hope to survive. I thought that Russians will destroy and occupy us but in the future and we will win. I was partly right. We will win.
And on this day we officially enter the 5th year of the war. And sometimes it seems that this war is an endless hell. But it will end. And I want to believe that we will come out of it stronger.
The U.S. administration did not send a single representative to the official commemoration events marking the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nor did it issue a single word through its embassy in Kyiv -- not even a standard diplomatic boilerplate.
This is all just tragic at this point.
I want to thank everyone for all the support we’re receiving. There really is an incredible amount of it.
For me, the sacrifice of the people depicted on the helmet means more than any medal ever could - because they gave the most precious thing they had.
And simple respect toward them is exactly what I want to give.
So, say hello to our new Minister of Defense.
He’s 34, and he’s held top-level positions in our government since he was 28.
When I travel abroad for work, I sometimes joke and shock people by telling them that in Ukraine we have a single smartphone app — where you can keep your official passport, your driver’s license, your vehicle registration, your children’s birth certificates, your diploma (and under other digitalization programs, even things like your military ID) and where you can order many government services and documents online.
Mykhailo Fedorov has done an enormous amount for the country’s unique modernization and for the military during the war.
Now he’ll have to bring his character, his managerial talent, and his IT-startup vibe to the Ministry of Defense.
I think no one will argue anymore that it makes no sense for us to try to compete with fascist Russia in sheer numbers of manpower and tanks. Our path is the continued development of our drone revolution and technology, and, above all, cleaning out the eternal Soviet chaos: bureaucracy, freeloading, and corruption that eats away at our defense from the inside.
Wishing success to the young minister.